Archive for March, 2009
Thank you, John Hope Franklin
Oddly, given the number of history blogs I subscribe to, I first heard that John Hope Franklin had died from someone on twitter. And I thought immediately that I wanted to write something, but I didn’t know what. Then, too, the tributes and memorials and expressions of gratitude started pouring in everywhere I looked to [...]
OSU Libraries open access mandate
Congratulations, Oregon State University librarians on your open access mandate!
inspiration and the right tools for the job
who doesn’t love getting things in the mail? i went for a run on saturday with the dog and came home to drop her off after a couple of miles before going back out. while i was out a mysterious little package arrived in the mail and in that package was a slim notebook labeled [...]
media cloud
I thought of Rachel and Anne-Marie’s Online NW presentation just now because I was playing with Media Cloud, which is trying to quantify the discussion about “traditional media” vs. “derivative media”.
Ethan Zuckerman (again with him today!) talks about the new project from Harvard’s Berkman Center in a 20+ minute video. Trying to watch the un-synced [...]
juke box hero
It seems to me that this is, ultimately, how the corporate content owners will lose the IP wars. Srsly? you do not want to mess with the cute baby videos, people will freaking hate you.
tomes, groans and micro-loans
As part of the reading and thinking I’ve been doing that lead up to my post last weekend, I’ve also been thinking about the question, if not books, then what?
Aaron Schmidt addresses this idea in his recent post, “libraries might not provide content in the future & it’s okay“. He talks about how much content [...]
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Command-F by Rachel Bridgewater, Anne-Marie Deitering, Caleb Tucker-Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 2009 ⌘f.
